I made myself a salad a few days ago. Nothing spectacular. Just some leaves (basil, spinach, chives and rocket) from my garden. To that I added sliced, raw patty pans from Leon's farm. Also from his produce, some baby tomatoes that I had sundried and preserved in olive oil, store bought lettuce for bulk and a couple of black olives. As I was picking and slicing, I remembered my delight at receiving some of the herb plants as Christmas gifts and I marvelled at how nicely they took to their new sunny spot in my garden. Patty pans are lovely added raw to salads and I felt blessed to have such an abundance of them because of the good crop on the farm. I assembled it all in a bowl that I had made many years ago when I was in my bonsai bowl making stage. I put it onto the old wooden dining room table, beautifully restored by George a while ago. It stood bathed in a pool of late-afternoon sunshine. Perfect lighting for natural light picture taking, I thought. Why all this detai...
The Restory is a Retreat Centre nestled against Tafelkop, a singular mountain head near Wakkerstroom, South Africa. Here we live a simple life as contemplatives. It is a place of re-connection: with ourselves, people, Nature, Silence and Creativity. Our retreats are aimed at this. Our conversations, writing and art centre around the univocity of life. We need a place that reminds us that we are all one. The Restory hopes to be such a place and space.